Just the thought of a 50 slide deck on motivation demotivates me – how about you? Motivation is a very personal thing. What might motivate me to do something could leave you without the slightest inclination to do it. Two…

Business user: How do I get the system to do x? Project manager: Ah, x wasn’t in the requirements Business: Yes it was Project manager: It’s not in the requirements specification you signed off Business: But we talked about it…

Is project assurance a valuable tool in ensuring project delivery or an expensive unnecessary overhead that duplicates what internal audit already do? In my view, if you are having that debate, you’ve missed the point. In fact, you’ve asked the…

What a lovely thought. No changes to requirements. Do late delivery. Nobody saying you can’t do that. But could you have projects without people? Projects are delivered by people, for people and impacting people. So you can’t get away from…

I recently attended a team building day. No, it wasn’t one of those outdoor tree hugging events where you learn to trust your colleagues by jumping out of a tree into their arms. It was much more fundamental, much more…

Project disasters often start at the top – with the project sponsor. Sponsors rarely set out to be difficult, hard to get hold of or disengaged, but it often happens. Why is that? There are a number of possible reasons.…

Just as every project costs money every project is expected to deliver benefits. If not, why is the project being undertaken? But do your benefits stand up to scrutiny? Even projects you wouldn’t necessarily want to undertake such as…

Have you ever bought or made something with the best intentions of using it, but then it ends up sitting on a shelf gathering dust? After a while the spiders know more about it than you and you can’t even…